Category Archives: Unix

UNIX audio applications, tools or utilities

Friture ~ Real-Time Audio Analyzer

Posted by tom2tec on

Friture is an application to visualize and analyze live audio data in real-time. Friture displays audio data in several widgets, such as a scope, a spectrum analyzer, or a rolling 2D spectrogram.

This program can be useful to analyze and equalize the audio response of a hall, or for educational purposes, etc.

The name Friture is a french word for frying, also used for noise in a sound.

Friture helps you to understand audio data with several widgets:

  • spectrum analyzer
  • rolling 2D spectrogram
  • fraction-of-octave analyzer
  • delay estimator
  • etc.
image of the friture user interface

friture.org
github.com/tlecomte/friture
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PH4BL3F5Q2H

LINGOT ~ Linux Instrument Tuner

Posted by tom2tec on

LINGOT is a musical instrument tuner. It’s accurate, easy to use, and highly configurable. Originally conceived to tune electric guitars, it can now be used to tune other instruments.

It looks like an analogue tuner, with a gauge indicating the relative shift to a certain note, determined automatically as the closest note to the estimated frequency.

  • It’s free software. LINGOT is distributed under the GPL license.
  • It’s really quick and accurate, perfect for real-time microtonal tuning.
  • Easy to use. Just plug in your instrument and run it.
  • LINGOT is a universal tuner. It can tune many musical instruments, you only need to provide the temperaments. For that purpose, it supports the Scala project .scl format.
  • Highly configurable via GUI. It’s possible to change any parameter while the program is running, without editing any file.

lingot-white-main

www.nongnu.org/lingot

Tracktion Waveform Free ~ Digital Audio Workstation

Posted by tom2tec on

The world’s best, fully featured, completely unlimited free DAW for all music creators. This is no ‘Lite’ version, we do not impose track limits, plugin limitations or other such constraints commonly found in other low cost offerings. Why? – we think you will enjoy using the app so much, you will discover the value in investing in our latest versions and the expanded features we are voraciously adding. Innovation and creativity is what drives us – join the ride today and download Waveform Free for Mac, Windows, or Linux operating systems.

tracktion-t7-daw-free-730x349

www.tracktion.com/products/waveform-free
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracktion_Waveform
github.com/Tracktion

Flacon ~ Unix Audio File Encoder

Posted by tom2tec on

Flacon extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.

To do this, it uses information from the appropriate CUE file. Besides, Flacon makes it possible to conveniently revise or specify tags both for all tracks at once or for each tag separately.

  • Supported input formats: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA).
  • Supported out formats: FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG or MP3.
  • ReplayGain analysis (album-gain and track-gain modes).
  • Multi-threaded conversion process.
  • Automatic character set detection for CUE files.
  • Generation of the pertrack CUE file in the output dir.

flacon-main-small

flacon.github.io

MediaInfo ~ Media Metadata Tool

Posted by tom2tec on

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

MediaInfo

mediaarea.net

Jajuk ~ Advanced Java Jukebox

Posted by tom2tec on

Jajuk is a Java music organizer for all platforms. The main goal of this project is to provide a fully-featured application to advanced users with large or scattered music collections.

Jajuk’s main principles are:

  • Maximum features – Jajuk is made firstly for advanced users looking for powerful features;
  • Maximum usability – Jajuk is designed to be intuitive, fast and provide multiple ways to perform the same operation;
  • Maximum portability and desktop integration.

jajuk_track_view

www.jajuk.info

Jokosher ~ Multi-track Audio Studio

Posted by tom2tec on

Jokosher is a simple and powerful multi-track studio. Jokosher provides a complete application for recording, editing, mixing and exporting audio, and has been specifically designed with usability in mind. The developers behind Jokosher have re-thought audio production at every level, and created something devilishly simple to use.

jokosher-0-11

www.jokosher.org

vsound ~ Virtual Audio Loopback Cable

Posted by tom2tec on

Vsound is a Linux / Unix application which allows you to digitally record the output of another program such as RealPlayer. The recorded output can be saved to a WAV file or can be piped into another program such as an MP3 encoder…

www.vsound.org

ShoutVST ~ VST Casting

Posted by tom2tec on

ShoutVST is a VST that enables streaming sound into Icecast and SHOUTcast directly from VST hosts, ideal for streaming live performances directly from applications like Traktor or Ableton without the use of loopback methods.

shoutvst

www.kvraudio.com

PulseEffects ~ Audio Effects For Pulseaudio

Posted by tom2tec on

Limiter, compressor, reverberation, equalizer and auto volume effects for Pulseaudio applications.

pulseeffects

github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects

Audio Overload ~ Video Game Music Player

Posted by tom2tec on

Audio Overload emulates the sound hardware of vintage consoles and computers, allowing you to listen to completely authentic renditions of classic video game tunes. Audio Overload does not play music from arcade games; for that you should use M1.

Audio Overload

www.bannister.org

Qmmp ~ Qt Audio Player

Posted by tom2tec on

This program is an audio player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms. An alternative user interface is also available.

qmmp-0.9_full_3

qmmp.ylsoftware.com
sourceforge.net/projects/qmmp-dev

qmmp-modern

An attempt to support “modern” Winamp skins in a Qmmp plugin.

github.com/seppd/qmmp-modern